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Obama Gets Left Behind

From drone attacks to Wall Street regulation, President Obama has been unable to please the left wing voters of his party.

Come on now. Is Obama really a “psychopathic megalomaniac”?

I learned of Obama’s problems today. Not from Ron Paul supporters. Not from Glenn Beck‘s Drudge wanna-be news site The Blaze. I read about Obama’s psychosis from left wing Democrats.

Everyday I get emails from former members of Move On, a pro-Democratic Party group that was famously active during the build-up to the Iraq War in 2003. They’re complaining about one man: President Obama.

In these emails, one thing is apparent. When it comes to the left wing liberals, Obama is being left behind.

The left was mostly raptured into political heaven four years ago when they elected Obama on bended knee. He spoke about things dear to their hearts: closing Guantanamo Bay. Ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Getting tough on bankers.

Guantanamo is still open. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, but the military presence remains. (Smacks of imperialism. That’s something the left hates as much as libertarians do.) Then there’s the president’s bit about getting tough on bankers. Where has the White House come down hard on Wall Street? Fuhgeddaboudit. This is New York!

One anti-Obama Saturday in my inbox:

Re: Write-in Kermit the Frog!

If being a ‘pragmatist’ or a ‘realist’ means choosing only amongst evils, count us OUT. Obama betrayed the American voters who expected he would not gut the US Constitution. Both parties are the same. And, in a world of infinite possibilities we choose not between the lesser of two evils. In fact, those of us who are not into denial and work at the human rights front lines prefer to face the Republican snake head-on then the confused and gutless Democrat chameleon whining about being a progressive when they are NOT.” — Ezili Danto, human rights lawyer at the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network

Re: Obama is a psychopath; reminds me of Stalin

There’s a cancer in the presidency called Barack Obama. We have a psychopathic megalomaniac occupying the White house who could be compared to Nero, Caligula, Stalin, or Pol Pot in his disdain for human life. He and his coven of other like minded DC psychopaths and sociopaths are on a murdering spree and like a third world dictator Obama can have someone and their family (including you) executed or blasted to smithereens with a thumbs up or down. This is sickening to me. They are so blase about murdering that they refer to the hit list photos as “baseball cards”. Killing is a game or a sport to them. There is a “cancer on the Presidency” and that cancer has metastasized throughout Washington DC. It was there before Obama arrived but he brought a whole new and virulent strain with him. Every time there is a shameful incident or embarrassing event perpetrated by “a few bad apples” we hear from the DC psychopaths that “That is not who we are”. They are incorrect. It is who they are in DC. It is not who we the real everyday thinking feeling Americans are. I certainly am not one of the people to be included in their cumulative we.” — Alexander Cockburn, writing for his online publication Counterpunch. Alexander is also a columnist at The Nation, though I have a hard time believing this missive will make it passed Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Alex is a firebrand. I’ve written for him once or twice, and he was kind enough to comment on my reporting about the Iraq War for The Boston Globe in 2003 in his Beat the Devil column. This sounds like Alex being Alex, alright. Gotta love his fire.

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here’s something for you ‘birthers’ t think about. of course with an unborn baby first comes a mother – If Obama was born in Kenya – why isn’t there evidence his mother was in Kenya? Passport, student visa, any kind of evidence is conspiciously missing. I’m just saying….

Birthers? You mean people who weren’t fooled by the doctored pdf “birth certificate?” You mean people who expect candidates for the presidency show proof of eligibility, especially when the candidate himself makes claims of being born outside the US? Those people?

Birthers? You mean people who expect candidates for the presidency show proof of eligibility, especially when the candidate himself makes claims of being born outside the US? You mean people who weren’t fooled by the doctored pdf “birth certificate?” Those people?

Why isn’t there evidence that his mother was in the hospital in Hawaii at the time of his birth? Every hospital is required to maintain records of operating/delivery rooms, billing records, etc. No one has ever been able to find any records for Obama.

Not a birther since I believe Obama is an American regardless of where he was born (both parents being Americans, nah Obama Sr did not contribute any genetic material that I can see. The Prez looks nothing like Senior, more like another friend of his mother).

To answer your question Jeanie, the records for those leaving and entering the country at that time period are really the airplane passenger lists. The government didn’t keep their own lists then. It was a time of smaller, less intrusive government. The passenger lists for the period around Obama Jr’s birth are suspiciously missing while all the other time periods are nicely intact. Passport and other evidence were all sealed by order of none other than Obama Jr himself the first day he was in office.

Kind of like the nightmare where you try to run, but the mud keeps getting deeper and deeper, then you realize it is not mud that you are mucking through. It is that barnyard stuff…

Denounce and disdain so-called “Birthers” all you like. From this and other exhalations of the bleating hearts of Left-la-la-land it sounds like Move On is going to Move Down to Arizona to bring coffee and donuts to Joe Arpaio!

Here is something for you to think about Jeanine, (first off I am not a Birther, never was never will be) However Two weeks ago Reuters requested Romnys’ birth certificate. He provided it, they reviewed it, passed it as official. Two weeks, Handled professionally by Romny and his staff, No fanfare, no hype, minimal headlines, done and over with. Then we have the way the BHO and his staff handled it, months of refusals, stonewalling, hype and blame galore to go around finally after months of debacles and embarrassment the BHO provides a cirtificate and a week later it is authenticated. That is just the difference in the way these two manage their professional lifes.